ending

end up in the knacker's yard

To be in or enter a state of ruin or failure due to having become useless or obsolete. Refers to a slaughterhouse for old or injured horses. Once a booming industry before the age of the Internet, home video rental has largely ended up in the knacker's yard these days.

a good beginning makes a good ending

Being well-prepared and focused at the start of something often leads to success. Keeping in mind that a good beginning makes a good ending, I worked really hard on my outline before I began my research paper.

end in (something)

To culminate in something; for something to be the last part of something. Opening night ended in disaster when the lead actress forgot her lines.As usual, our family dinner ended in a big argument, and everyone went home angry.I'm looking for a seven-letter word that ends in E.

end it (all)

To kill oneself. If they diagnose me with a terminal illness, I'd rather end it all now, instead of suffering.Poor Dave is just too intense about his schoolwork. He's ready to end it all if he gets a B+!This is the message to all the young people who are thinking of trying to escape the pain by just ending it: it gets better.

end up

1. To reach some conclusion, state, or situation due to a particular course of action. Thanks to that traffic jam, I ended up being late to the meeting.Sara has always loved to read so I'm not surprised that she ended up an English major.I really think that you and your high school sweetheart will end up together.

2. To take some course of action, perhaps reluctantly. Thanks to bad weather, we ended up by leaving our beach house ahead of schedule.

3. To conclude something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "end" and "up." Well, I'd say that big fight pretty much ends up our family dinner.

4. To reach a particular location, often unintentionally. We wanted to go to the beach on Saturday, but because traffic was so bad, we ended up at the mall instead.When my car's engine overheated, I ended up at the mechanic instead of my big job interview.

5. To be with someone, often by default. It seems that we've ended up with the most boring tour guide on the planet. He's seriously putting me to sleep.

end up (by) (doing something)

end up at (some place)

To reach a particular location, often unintentionally. We wanted to go to the beach on Saturday, but because traffic was so bad, we ended up at the mall instead.When my car's engine overheated, I ended up at the mechanic instead of my big job interview.Hey, how was Saturday night? Where did you end up at?

end up

rear end

1. The back part of anything, especially a vehicle, as in There's a large dent in the rear end of the car.

2. The buttocks, as in I'm afraid these pants don't fit my rear end. The noun rear alone has been used in both these senses, the first since the late 1700s and the second since the mid-1900s. The addition of end occurred in the first half of the 1900s.

rear (end)

rear-ender

and back-ender

n. an automobile wreck where one car runs into the back of another. (see also fender-bender.) It wasn’t a bad accident, just a rear-ender. The rain caused a couple of “back-enders,” but there were no serious accidents.

In the case of 26-year-old Abin Ninan, he doesn't think that happy endings ever really happen, but he still believes them.

While he doesn't think happy endings actually occur, Ninan said that believing in a happy ending is beneficial because it encourages people to strive for what they want, which makes that which they hope for more likely to occur.

This pattern of price-ending use creates the conditions for 99 endings to become associated in the consumer's mind with the presence of a discount and thus become more likely than 00 endings to impart the connotations of a discounted or otherwise low price.

Excluding anecdotal reports of price-ending effects, we were able to find only four published reports of studies that systematically tested for the presence of an effect of the 99 ending or other just-below price endings on sales.

Some people say there should be more happy endings in every book because it makes children happy and makes them feel like reading more, but obviously children aren't the only people in the world who read books.

This complex protein consists of three functional regions: one that targets a muscle nerve ending and binds to its cell membrane, another that helps the toxin enter the cell, and a third that poisons the nerve ending by blocking its release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that normally signals a muscle to contract.

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